Uninstalling Data Privacy (Masking flow)

An instance administrator can uninstall Data Privacy.

Who needs to complete this task?

Instance administrator To uninstall Data Privacy, you must be an instance administrator. An instance administrator has permission to manage software in the following projects:

The operators project for the instance: The operators for this instance of IBM® Software Hub are installed in the operators project. In the uninstall commands, the ${PROJECT_CPD_INST_OPERATORS} environment variable refers to the operators project.
The operands project for the instance: The IBM Software Hub control plane and the services for this instance of IBM Software Hub are installed in the operands project. In the uninstall commands, the ${PROJECT_CPD_INST_OPERANDS} environment variable refers to the operands project.

When do you need to complete this task?

Complete this task if you want to remove Data Privacy from an instance of IBM Software Hub.

Repeat as needed If you are responsible for multiple instances of IBM Software Hub, you can repeat this task to remove other instances of Data Privacy on the cluster.

Information you need to complete this task

Review the following information before you uninstall Data Privacy:

Environment variables

The commands in this task use environment variables so that you can run the commands exactly as written.

If you don't have the script that defines the environment variables, see Setting up installation environment variables.
To use the environment variables from the script, you must source the environment variables before you run the commands in this task. For example, run:
```
source ./cpd_vars.sh
```

Procedure

Complete the following tasks to uninstall Data Privacy:

Uninstalling the service

Uninstalling the service

To uninstall Data Privacy:

Log the cpd-cli in to the Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform cluster:
```
${CPDM_OC_LOGIN}
```
Remember: CPDM_OC_LOGIN is an alias for the cpd-cli manage login-to-ocp command.

Delete the custom resource for Data Privacy.

cpd-cli manage delete-cr \
--cpd_instance_ns=${PROJECT_CPD_INST_OPERANDS} \
--components=dp \
--include_dependency=true

Wait for the cpd-cli to return the following message before you proceed to the next step:

[SUCCESS]... The delete-cr command ran successfully

Delete the OLM objects for Data Privacy:

cpd-cli manage delete-olm-artifacts \
--cpd_operator_ns=${PROJECT_CPD_INST_OPERATORS} \
--components=dp

Wait for the cpd-cli to return the following message:

[SUCCESS]... The delete-olm-artifacts command ran successfully